Research and Development... for technology leadership into the future

R&D at TELUS

TELUS' technology leadership and innovation is enabled by its technology laboratories, innovation centres and by its support for research and development activities. The TELUS R&D program supports a portfolio of internal and external research and development activities in wired and wireless communications technologies.

TELUS Labs and Innovation Centres

The TELUS Technology Labs enable testing, trialing and proof of concept of emerging new technologies and services. Associated with the Technology Labs, the TELUS Innovation Centres across Canada showcase the innovation of TELUS' current and potential future networks and services.

TRLabs (Telecommunications Research Laboratories)

As an industrial partner, TELUS contributes more than $600,000 per year of sponsorship and in-kind funding to TRLabs. Founded in 1986, TRLabs is the largest not-for-profit applied telecommunications research consortium in Canada, with annual revenues of more than $10 million. TRLabs operates a network of laboratories across the country, conducting research that is balanced between academic and applied. TELUS also actively influences the TRLabs research program and participates in selected research projects. TELUS provides TRLabs with TRNet, a high-speed 10 Gbps optical network between TRLabs laboratories used for advanced network research.

University Research

To foster innovation, technology leadership and the development of intellectual capital in Canada, TELUS supports or collaborates with several Canadian universities including the University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, University of Alberta, University of Calgary, McGill University and the University of Laval.